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In contrast the term may also refer to the construction of State Corporatism , where government-owned corporations are created and delegated public social tasks resembling Corporate Nationalism , away from autonomous privatization. Corporatization can also refer to non-corporate entities like universities or hospitals taking up management structures or other features and behaviours employed by corporations. OVERVIEW The move towards Neoliberal economic reform in the 1980s led to privatization of public functions in many countries. Corporatization was seen as a half-way house on the road to privatization. The effect of corporatization has been to convert state departments into public companies and interpose commercial boards of Directors between the shareholding ministers and the management of the enterprises. These State-owned Enterprise s are organized in the same manner as private corporations, with the difference that the company's shares remain in the ownership of the state and are not traded on the Stock Market . Corporatization has been the policy of the People's Republic Of China and has been used in New Zealand and most states of Australia in the reform of their Electricity Market s, as well as in many other countries and industries (e.g. Dutch water supply companies). Although corporatization is to be distinguished from privatization (the former involves publicly owned corporations, the latter privately owned ones), once a service has been corporatised it is often relatively easy to privatise or part-privatise it, for example by selling some or all of the company's shares via the stock market. In some cases (e.g. the Netherlands in regard to water supply) there are laws to prevent this. MAJOR AREAS Some major areas of services which have been corporatized in the past include:
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